Author: Arthur Conan DoylePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 75
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The Surgeon of Gaster Fell
The Surgeon of Gaster Fell
Author: Arthur Conan DoyleSurgeon of Gaster Fell
Author: Arthur Conan DoylePublisher:
ISBN: 9780755106486
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Surgeon of Gaster Fell
Author: Arthur Conan DoyleThe Surgeon of Gasterfell
Author: Arthur Conan DoyleThe Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes
Author: Andrew LycettPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 074327525X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 579
Book Description
A portrait based on research into thousands of previously unavailable documents offers an alternative view of the prestigious author that depicts him as a contradictory man who embodied both upstanding and cruel tendencies, covering such topics as his dysfunctional parents, his extramarital affair, and his fanatical pursuit of scientific data. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
The Independent
Author: Gothic Tales
Author: Arthur Conan DoylePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192571664
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
'There was a rumour, too, that he was a devil-worshipper, or something of that sort, and also that he had the evil eye...' Arthur Conan Doyle was the greatest genre writer Britain has ever produced. Throughout a long writing career, he drew on his own medical background, his travels, and his increasing interest in spiritualism and the occult to produce a spectacular array of Gothic Tales. Many of Doyle's writings are recognised as the very greatest tales of terror. They range from hauntings in the polar wasteland to evil surgeons and malevolent jungle landscapes. This collection brings together over thirty of Conan Doyle's best Gothic Tales. Darryl Jones's introduction discusses the contradictions in Conan Doyle's very public life - as a medical doctor who became obsessed with the spirit world, or a British imperialist drawn to support Irish Home Rule - and shows the ways in which these found articulation in that most anxious of all literary forms, the Gothic.
Danger and Other Stories
Author: Sir Arthur Conan DoylePublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016237369
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Medical Casebook of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson
Author: Nick HowlettPublisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1804242411
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
Arthur Conan Doyle was a GP before he became a writer. He uses his medical knowledge widely in the Sherlock Holmes stories. He bases the deductive skills of his hero detective on the diagnostic techniques a GP uses with a patient. He even gives Sherlock a GP sidekick. This all contributes to the enduring popularity of the Sherlock Holmes stories, over 130 years after the first story was published. An amazing 52 diseases feature in the Sherlock Holmes stories. This includes many that remain significant parts of a GP's workload today - diabetes, asthma, ischaemic heart disease, stroke. There are then other diseases that have largely died out in the UK due to advances in medical science - diphtheria, brain fever, rickets, tetanus. The Medical Casebook of Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson takes a definitive look at how Conan Doyle uses these 52 diseases in the stories. It also gives a historical perspective on the Victorian understanding of the diseases, using the textbooks Conan Doyle would very likely have had sitting on his consulting room shelves.